Similar concerns have been voiced by a doctor who has been treating Mark for emotional problems and has reportedly described him as a violent sociopath. A video of a violent encounter between an erratic, knife-wielding Mark and his terrified wife tends to corroborate that characterization.

If – God forbid – Patrice's worst fears are consummated, LA County Sheriff’s Deputy Julio
Jove should be prosecuted as an accomplice. Jove helped Mark track down the would-be victim -- who had been relocated for her safety -- and held her in jail while the estranged husband burgled her home.

About
two years ago, Patrice filed for divorce. In January, she obtained an order of
protection and moved into a safe house in Orange County. According to Patrice’s
attorney, David Scharf, her husband reacted by “threatening to have her
arrested” and promising that he would “see her in jail.”

At
daybreak on March 20, Patrice was startled awake by an insistent pounding on
the front door. When she answered she was shoved aside by several deputies who,
without permission or explanation, surged into her home with their guns drawn.

Det. Jove in casual attire.

The
officer in charge of the thugscrum was Detective Jove, with whom Patrice had
spoken three days earlier. Patrice had called Jove after learning that the
detective was investigating her in connection with the alleged theft of items
from her husband's car.

“Mark
had violated the protective order by calling me to say I could get some things
belonging to Jonathan [the couple’s 23-year-old son] from his car,” Patrice
explained to me. “After we retrieved my son's belongings I found out that Detective
Jove was investigating me for some reason.”

Detective
Jove later claimed that he was investigating the theft of several items from
Mark's car. The March 20 raid was conducted pursuant to a “Ramey
warrant,” which indicates that Jove was already planning to arrest Patrice
when she contacted him three days earlier. If he had legitimate suspicions
about Patrice, he neglected an opportunity to clear the case without further
trouble by talking with a cooperative suspect.

Instead,
Jove “told me that he had no questions to ask, and no information he could give
me,” Patrice recalled to me in a phone interview. “I also let him know about
the protective order against Mark, who was stalking and harassing me. Under the
terms of that order, Mark was not permitted to call me, and he wasn't allowed
to know where I was living, and I explained that to Jove. I also gave him the
name of other law enforcement officers who had been in contact with us and knew
the details of our situation. I explained all of this to him just a few days
before the cops raided my home at daybreak, supposedly in search of property
that had been stolen from Mark.”

Mark Teuton

The
property in question consisted of two laptop computers that had been purchased
with family funds and would be considered the family's “community property”
under California law, since the divorce has not been finalized.

Patrice
believes that Mark wanted access to information on the laptop computers dealing
with alleged sexual and financial misconduct, which would play a significant
role in divorce proceedings. However, Mark didn't know Patrice's passwords, and
since she was living in an undisclosed location he had no way of getting them
from her.

By
inviting Patrice to collect the laptop computers, and then reporting them as
“stolen,” Mark effectively enlisted Detective Jove and his comrades as
accomplices in a home invasion robbery. The confiscated property wasn’t turned
over to the Magistrate’s office, as required by law. Instead, the laptops were
handed to Mark, along with an Apple desktop computer that Patrice had purchased
by herself.

“After
seizing my client's property under the claim of a warrant, Dep. Jove took her
computer and her other property and immediately gave it to Mark Teuton,” recounted attorney
David Scharf in his detailed letter to the District Attorney's office.
“Releasing property that has been obtained under a search warrant is a blatant
violation of the law.” The same is true of Jove's refusal to provide the search
warrant and the return when Scharf filed a formal request for those documents.

After
the police invaded her home, Patrice offered documentation proving legal
ownership of the supposedly stolen computers, to no avail. Jove and his
comrades weren't there to solve a crime, but rather to commit one.

“In
front of my 14-year-old daughter these deputies pushed me, handcuffed me, and
verbally abused me,” Patrice told me. “They had no justification for this, and
they knew it. They also knew about my health problems” – she suffers from Lupus
and coronary artery disease – “but this didn't make any difference. They took
me to the hospital, then dragged me off to jail.”

Despite
the burden of her parents’ impending divorce, Patrice’s daughter Natalie has
maintained a 4.0 GPA in her high school. The illegal confiscation of the Apple
desktop computer by “armed government workers” placed her academic life in
jeopardy, Natalie
explained in a letter to Detective Jove, because it “contained all of my school
assignments, essays, and notes.”

Not
content to confiscate Natalie’s schoolwork, the intruders attempted to do essentially
the same thing to her. One of them led the 14-year-old to a waiting vehicle and
told her that she would be in the company of a social worker. The driver was
actually Mark's girlfriend, who was a complete stranger to both Natalie and her
mother.

“This
woman Natalie didn't know kept telling her, `Don't worry, it will all be over
soon, and you'll be with your father,'” Patrice recalled. “During the entire
trip this woman was recording my daughter and trying to get her to say damaging
things about me.”

Patrice
would later learn that after she had been arrested, Detective Jove called Mark
and told him, “I have your daughter. What do you want me to do with her?”

“I
was given sole custody of Natalie, and the order of protection specified that
Mark was to have no contact with either of us,” Patrice observed. “He hadn't
paid us a single dollar in child support, and was facing both disbarment and
contempt of court – yet after Jove arrested me, he tried to turn my daughter
over to her abusive father, as well as giving him my address and a huge amount
of confidential information he was not legally entitled to have.”

Mark Teuton confronts his wife.

Natalie
returned to the safe house, where she stayed with her adult brother until
Patrice was released from jail. Once she was home, Natalie noticed that the
doors had been left open. A quick inventory of the family’s belongings revealed
that someone had taken a black book containing Patrice's computer passwords, as
well as two large binders filled with receipts, financial records, and other
materials that had been gathered for divorce hearings.

The
raid happened on a Thursday morning. Patrice was able to arrange bail by late
that afternoon – yet she was held, without necessity or justification, for more
than three days. No charges against Patrice were ever formally filed. The
purpose of arresting her was simply to get her out of the home long enough for
her husband to carry out a black-bag job.

Scharf
concludes that while Patrice was held in custody – despite posting bail – her husband,
who was forbidden to have any contact with her, “gained access to her home and
stole the black book and the two binders containing documentary evidence
obtained by Patrice proving Mark was actively hiding assets intended for use in
the final divorce trial. No one else on earth would have any interest in these
items and only Mark would know that there would be no one at the residence
while Patrice was being arrested. It is significant to note that for no
apparent reason Jove deactivated the security camera recording system installed
by Patrice” before she was taken to jail.

Jove
arrested Patrice without cause, confiscated her property and illegally transferred
it to her ex-husband, facilitated the near-kidnapping of her teenage daughter,
disabled her home security, and then prolonged her unwarranted detention to allow
her ex-husband to steal critical evidence in a civil case. Jove did this in
knowing violation of a protective order, acting outside his jurisdiction to aid
and abet a man regarded as an immediate, and potentially lethal, threat to his
wife and children.

“I
know Mark,” Patrice was reportedly told in her home by an Orange County deputy
who had served papers to him. “You need to protect yourself because Mark will
kill you in seconds, and I can’t get here for minutes.”

As
Scharf pointed out in his letter to the Los Angeles DA’s office, Patrice would have
been able to protect herself – were it not for the intervention of Detective
Jove: “The simple fact is that Patrice Teuton's life is in danger and Jove has
been facilitating a stalker with his violations of law and perjury.”

Accusations
of sexual and financial misconduct are typical in divorce cases, and it’s
hardly unheard of for one deeply alienated spouse to obtain a protective order
by falsely accusing the other of harboring violent intentions. The fears expressed
by Patrice, her
son Jonathan, and her best friend, were considered plausible by the judge
who issued the protective order. While that isn’t a particularly challenging
hurdle to cross, it does suggest that the wisest course of action would have
been for Patrice and her daughter to be left unmolested in their safe house
until the divorce was finalized.

The
husband in this dispute, however, enjoyed the advantage of impunity-by-proxy –
that is, he was able to persuade police officers to commit illegal acts under
the color of “law.” Detective Jove was in a position to help
because he has literally gotten away with murder.

In
October 2010, Detective
Jove shot and killed a 20-year-old man named Jonathan Cuevas who had been
jaywalking across a street on Long Beach Boulevard in Lynwood. Jove rolled up
to Cuevas and several friends and flashed a spotlight on them. Cuevas, who was
not a criminal suspect, bolted. Video provided by a security camera shows Jove
shooting several times at the fleeing man, who falls to the ground and is
dispatched execution-style once the officer reaches him.

In
his report, Jove dutifully recited from the police officer’s catechism of
self-exoneration, claiming that the “unusual behavior” of Cuevas and his
friends led him to believe that they were “setting him up for an ambush” –
despite the fact that he was the one
who initiated the contact. When Jove demanded that Cuevas show him his hands,
he “quickly turned his upper body,” which prompted the high-strung officer to
shoot at him. As Cuevas fled, he stopped long enough to turn and “blade his
body” at the officer, who fired several more rounds.

After
Cuevas fell, Jove continued, the victim could be seen “aggressively moving his
shoulders from side to side” while screaming, “You f****g shot me!” Honest and
rational people would describe this behavior as “writhing in agony.” As someone
deeply indoctrinated in the officer safety uber
alles dogma and given authorization to lie, Jove insisted that his victim’s
death throes left him “in fear for his life,” which supposedly meant he was
justified in firing “two to three rounds from his service weapon” at
point-blank range.

Jove’s
incident report claimed that Cuevas pulled a handgun from his waistband. A gun
was allegedly found at the scene, but Cuevas’s fingerprints weren’t on the
weapon and there is nothing in the surveillance video corroborating Jove’s
claim that Cuevas ever reached for it or threatened him in any way. Additionally,
the firearm provided to the family’s attorney as part of civil discovery was not the silver-handled
gun supposedly found on the scene.

Execution-style shooting of Cuevas by Jove.

The
video “doesn’t show that he makes a threat to the officer,” insisted Mayra
Murrillo, the mother of Cuevas’s son, who was a newborn when his father was
killed. “He’s running. He gets shot in the back and he falls down and the
officer stands over him and continues to shoot him.”

Seven
months after Jove killed Cuevas, the LA County DA’s office, presiding over the
familiar liturgy of institutional immunity, ruled that the killer “acted in
lawful self-defense” when he shot a fleeing man in the back and then
administered the coup-de-grace at intimate range. Last September, the county paid
$875,000 to settle a
$5 million wrongful death suit brought on behalf of the victim’s son.

No
punitive action was taken against Detective Jove, which left him in a position
to terrorize an innocent woman on behalf of her estranged and allegedly abusive
husband, which is precisely the kind of service reasonable people expect from the degenerate racket called "law enforcement."

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Anonymous
said...

Wow, "the degenerate racket called "law enforcement."", is right.

I truly hope the people who support the empire are dong so because they've been bamboozled and pre-conditioned from years and years of propaganda and government indoctrination. That if they only knew, they'd do a 180.

However; I suspect the nation is filled with people who are monsters inside and have no problem with how things work.

Will, if the seized computers were running Microsoft Windows as their operating system, the fact that Mark Teuton didn't have the passwords is irrelevant -- all he had to do was boot up the laptops in question with a Linux live CD or DVD. Then he would have been able to get any files that weren't previously encrypted or password-protected from the hard drives.

Morals of the story:

Avoid saving to the internal hard drive whenever possible.

Strong passwords are a must.

Learn to use Linux (or BSD, or some other open source operating system not dependent upon Microsoft or Apple).

What a horror... and the woman was trusting the "restraining order?" What a sick joke.

Indeed, Mike... and back up everything to an encrypted thumb drive or other secure device, and put anything sensitive in a safe deposit box in this sort of situation. The notebooks full of receipts and so forth should already have been in a bank vault. The stalker would have had at least a slightly more difficult time finding them.

The girl's school work should also have been backed up so she wouldn't lose it.

Just curious when this sort of criminal behavior, by "cops" and the rest of the scum pretending to be our masters... will start to get very expensive in blood... their blood, personally.

One minor consolation inherent in the injustice that monopolies represent, is that the monopolists tend to be very jealous in guarding the demarcation lines of their special privileges.

Although judges (and the courts they preside over), and the blue clad chubby thugs, are both employed by the same monopolist

In my limited experience, there is little love lost between the two sets of functionaries.

Although of little comfort to Patrice Teuton, or her family, following their ordeal. It will be interesting to see whether or how the court which issued the "protection order" re-asserts the demarcation lines crossed by the psychopathic actors in this.

If (as I suspect) the court fails to do so, then it will merely confirm it is an irrelevant, just an expensive and pompous obstruction, blocking the way to a freely competitive system of protection and dispute resolution.

This kind of crap is why I need to get my family out of this crazy country. There's no hope for real reform, anymore than Rome could be reformed after the Republic had fallen. It's all downhill from here... well, it has been for some time.

The connection between Mark Teuton and Det. Jove may very well be, as Will Grigg says, be that Mark "has something" on Jove. It could also involve money, i.e., bribery. This is, at this point, pure speculation, but it's based on this: I know Mark Teuton all too well. I met him in 1986. Mark is a slick, brilliant attorney who has made and squandered many millions of dollars; he would not in any way be adverse to attempting to bribe anyone, including a police officer. He would not hesitate to pay someone to kill his family. I know this despicable fiend because he married my best friend, Patrice. I was maid-of-honor at her wedding, as was she at mine, and I am Godmother to her two sons. I sent this information out to many major media, and only Will Grigg, God bless him, was willing to call Patrice, to research this case and write about it. I ask for your prayers for Patrice and her children, and that Mark Teuton and Det. Jove and all others enabling them be brought to justice.

I am very glad that this article was written. I know the Teutons and I have personally witnessed Mark being extremely abusive towards his ex-wife and children. Yelling at them, physical abuse, etc. Their eldest son, Johnathon, was on a sports team with my son when they were younger. This is how I know the abuse goes back so many years. Mark was always forcing him to achieve the impossible and blowing up when he wasn't performing to his standards. Parents would talk about it. It is about time that someone step up and help to protect this family. However, it is a shame that the police would act this way. Mark is an attorney and probably has many connections to law enforcement. Maybe Jove owned Mark a favor? Maybe Mark has some "dirt" on Jove?

I think this blog is a pile of horse poo. Has anyone checked the credibility of this blogger who is a so called Christian but all of you on here have passed JUDGEMENT. That is only for God to make, wouldn't all of you pray for God to help this family rather than badmouth someone ? And this anonymous blogger, really? You think it is not obvious that you are the same person as the blogger, just using a fake name to make this story relevant? Your wrting style is the same. You are obviously not very smart to see that. This blog also was picked up by this loser because he's the only one that probably believes all of this. Justice will prevail and lets all pray for God to help these people not badmouth them thinking this helps. You people are extremly evil for talking like this and if the family and spouse was aware of this violent person, then why did your stupid ass wait this long to say something. Especially the mother. If she knew he was alledgely into child porn, why wouldnt you protect your children. That in itself is child neglect. Anyhow just thought I would express a unbiased opinion not like the rest of these people.